An expert in data security says Victoria’s vaccine passport system is too easy to forge, as bar and restaurant owners brace for confrontations with customers when the system opens in Melbourne.
More than 200,000 Victorians on Monday linked their Medicare vaccine certificate to their Service Victoria app, creating a “vaccine passport” proving their vaccination status to businesses using the state’s QR code system. A “vaccinated economy trial” began on Monday in 14 businesses in six regional areas.
The trial is a precursor to a system to be rolled out across the state once 80 per cent of the eligible population has got both coronavirus vaccinations, expected around November 5.
But one cryptography expert has raised security concerns, saying the app inappropriately locks in the mass collection of data from Australian citizens and is too easy to forge.
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